Unwanted web page.

Q:Unwanted web page.

I have started getting an unwanted web page show up on my pc. I'm running windows 7. In the tab it says (Sponsorship) on the address line it says m.goodthingshappen.com. Warns me that my computer is in poor shape. That it is a certified Microsoft partner and wants me to download a repair tool. I've run Malware and bytes, CC cleaner. Search and Destroy. So far it doesn't seem to hurt any thing but it keeps coming back. yipnyapThanksEdit: Moved topic from Windows 7 to the more appropriate forum. ~ Animal

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Unwanted web page.

I recommend downloading and running Reimage. It's a computer repair tool that has been proven to identify and fix many Windows problems with a high level of success.

Note: Don't cure or delete a threat, but choose skip for all instead.Please download TDSSKiller from here and save it to your DesktopDoubleclick on TDSSKiller.exe to run the application, then click on Change parameters

In the Additional options: Check Detect TDLFS file systemClick Start Scan and allow the scan process to run.Choose for all threats to Skip for all of them.Click ContinuePlease post the TDSSKiller.[Version]_[Date]_[Time]_log.txt found in your root directory (typically c:\)===================================================

I'd like us to scan your machine with ESET OnlineScan This process may may take several hours, that is normal.Hold down Control and click on this link to open ESET OnlineScan in a new window.Click the button.For alternate browsers only: (Microsoft Internet Explorer users can skip these steps)Click on esetsmartinstaller_enu.exe to download the ESET Smart Installer. Save it to your desktop.Double click on the icon on your desktop.

ESET will then download updates for itself, install itself, and begin scanning your computer. Please be patient as this can take some time.When the scan completes, click List ThreatsCopy and paste the information in your next reply. (If no malware was found you will not be presented with a log).Click the Back button.Click the Finish button.===================================================

Note: Please note that Antivir Webguard uses ASK Toolbar as part of its web security. If you remove ASK by using Adwcleaner, Antivir Webguard will no longer work properly. Therefore, if you use this program please use the instructions below to access the options screen where you should enable/DisableAskDetections before using AdwCleaner.

Using AdwCleaner is very simple. Simply download the program and run it. You will then be presented with a screen that contains a Search and Delete button. The Search button will cause AdwCleaner to search your computer for unwanted programs and then display a log showing the various files, folders, and registry entries used by these programs.

To delete these unwanted programs simply click on the Delete button, which will cause AdwCleaner to reboot your computer and remove the files and registry entries associated with the various adware that you are removing. On reboot, AdwCleaner will display a log showing the files, folders, and registry entries that were removed.

I have been getting //rvzr-a.akamaihd.net coming up on my pc and I cannot see how to get rid of it, apart from the cancel X at the top of the screen. Where is it coming from and can I stop it as it takes over the computer when loading.

When I close down after using the internet often there is a web page remaining from a site I have not been on. It is a sort of pop-up advertising on-line gambling. Is it malware? nothing is showing on a routine scan.

A:unwanted web page

Hello and welcome to TSF.

We want all our members to perform the steps outlined in the link given below, before posting for assistance. There's a sticky at the top of this forum, and a
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After running through all the steps, you shall have a proper set of logs. Please post them in a new topic, as this one shall be closed.

If you have trouble with one of the steps, simply move on to the next one, and make note of it in your reply.

Please note that the Virus/Trojan/Spyware Help forum is extremely busy, and it may take a while to receive a reply.

I have windows xp and MSIE 7. AOL 9.0 SE was installed on my computer (stuck with dial-up due to geography). When I now open MSIE, the AOL Toolbar page is the opening page. Even though it is supposed to not appear once use, it continues to come up as the opening page in MSIE, even though my home page is Google. I understand that removel of the AOL toolbar does not solve this problem and compounds the problem with error messages in MSIE. Help please!

I am running a Dell desktop win xp pro sp 3. I have a worm that I cannot remove. It will open additional pages in IE that seem to be selling or advertising info. I have the pop up blocker on. Using Avast professional addition. I have done a full system scan and a boot time scan, both indicate signs of a trojan but cannot delete or move. I also run updated versions of Ad-Aware and Spybot search & destroy and delete what they find. Also have run CCleaner and delete what it finds. I did have the postcard.exe virus/worm, but now it appears to be gone, but the IE pages still open as well as some pages won't open at all. Please advise what more I can do. Thanks - Kevin

A:Unwanted Page redirects and pop ups

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Please copy this page to Notepad and Save it to your Desktop in order to assist you when carrying out the following instructions.

Before beginning the fix, read this post completely. If there's anything that you do not understand, kindly ask your questions before proceeding.
Ensure that there aren't any opened browsers when you are carrying out the procedures below.

It is IMPORTANT that you don't miss a step & perform everything in the correct order/sequence.

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Please note that these fixes are not instantaneous. Most infections require more than one round to properly eradicate.

Please stay with me until given the 'all clear' even if symptoms seemingly abate.

Kindly follow my instructions and please do no fixing on your own or running of scanners unless requested by a helper.

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Please uninstall the following via Start->(or My Computer)->Control Panel->Add or Remove Programs if it still exists:

Hi everyone,I have Win98 and IE6. I have inherited a very unsavoury web page as my home page and I cannot get rid of it. I reset the homepage to yahoo or similar but every time I boot up this other home page (porn)is loaded. I have tried deleting it and searching for it. The search said it was in temp internet files so I deleted it but still it comes back every time I start up. Very frustrating. Please help.RegardsRay.

I have a Lexmark Optra Lxi + printer connected to a NetWare 4.11 server by parrallel cable. I have two new computers using Windows 2000 Pro and every time I print from those machines I get a sort of cover page with the users name spelled out ascii style:

and some other information including the app that sent the print job, time, etc. I can't seem to find out out to shut this function off.

I have 4 other machines running Win98 and they DO NOT get the extra cover page when they print.

Thanks.

PS I put this in networking because I'm not sure if the problem is with the server (Novell) or the clients printing on the network (Win2K)

I need to know how to get rid of search-world page which comes on atuuomaticaly when ever i start up

A:how to rid computer of an unwanted page

Hi, and welcome to the TSG forum

i suspect you have spyware/virus

have you carried out any scans

anywaypost a hjt logHIJACK THIS:

Download and copy hijackthis to its own folder , it makes backups so keeping them separate and available can be useful.

Note the Spyware tools websites are very often under attack and so I have provided more than 1 location to download from:

http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/http://209.133.47.200/~merijn/downloads.htmlhttp://www.thespykiller.co.uk/http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html http://aumha.org/downloads/hijackthis.exehttp://www.thewhities.com/http://www.sherrylynn.us/privacypolicy (this has an older version 1.97 - if you can not get to any of the above sites)

Close all open windows and open Hijack This. Click “Scan”. When the scan is finished (it only takes a second), the scan button will change to “Save Log”. Click on “Save Log” and then save it to NotePad. Click on “Edit” – “Select all” – “copy” and then “paste” into the thread. DO NOT FIX ANYTHING wait advice from one of the many security experts in this forum.

I currently do not have the skill/competence to advise and poor advice can be far more damaging to your PC with this software, and so I will be unable to add any advice on the log and so will nolonger be replying to your post with regards to the HJT issue, so please have patience and wait for one of the secruity experts to provide further detailed advice

Hi, I followed your advice for Scrollisalegend about an unwanted web page... It was the same page that was plague-ing me, so I followed the same directions. Here is my Hijackthis log...Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.3Scan saved at 1:43:28 PM, on 11/3/2003Platform: Windows ME (Win9x 4.90.3000)MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

well if you had the same problem as Scrollisalegend then you had a CWS hijack, running the programs from that thread cured the problem, but to ensure you stay cured read here and download the security updates mentioned at the bottom http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html

Hi... I bet you guys get this a lot...... but somehow I've become stuck with some po*y searchco as my home page and I don't want it. Dunno how this happend. Can someone please show me how to get rid of it...

A:Unwanted home page ?!?

Click on the link in my signature to download Hijack This. Download it and click "Save".

It’s very important that you save it to its own folder on your hard drive, such as program files (not temporary files or the desktop), so that it can create proper back-ups and be able to restore them if necessary.

The downloaded program will be a .zip file. Extract the .exe file from it and save in the permanent folder you just created.

Click on Hijackthis.exe to launch the program.

Click the "Scan" button when the scan is finished the scan button will become "Save Log" click that and save the log.

The log should open in notepad. Click on "Edit > Select All" then click on "Edit > Copy" then Paste the log back here in a reply.

DO NOT have Hijack This fix anything yet. Most of what it finds will be harmless or even required.

Until yesterday - whenever I logged in to the net, the first page I saw - and the one I wanted by default - was the www.megalink.net web site. (That is our ISP). But something happened yesterday that is very distressing. Since then, when I click on the I.E. icon to log-on , what comes up is a Google page - with the headline "I can Find It" at the top. And the URL in the address line is www.icanfindit.net/?aid=577.

So I went into IE Tools, Internet options, General and sure enough, that new URL is in the address line for the home page address. So I changed it back to the Megalink URL, clicked APPLY and OK. Then I manually changed the URL in the IE screen to Megalink, and it came up. I went back into Tools, Internet Options and clicked save current.

But when I log off and back on - the same problem recurs. And while the Google page is loading, this line appears on the task bar at the bottom of the screen: http://4-counter.com/?b=crue

I notice that others have posted something about the subject unwanted page that pops up when I go to some site (like CNET) and click a Download button. The URL of the page is http://rvzr-a.akamaihd.net/sd/wrap-0.01.html?u=http%3A%2F%2Frvzr-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsd%2Fapps%2Ffusionx%2F0.0.3.html%3Faff%3D1700-1016. It is always blank, but pops up in front of the page I'm on. I have run Malwarebytes and SuperAntiSpyware, and they find nothing. I have HiJackThis on my laptop and can run and save a log, but per the instructions, will not do that until asked.

I notice this only happens with Firefox, my default browser. It does not appear if I use IE, so I suspect something has altered the configuration file for Firefox.

I must have opened a funky e-mail. Somehow every time I reboot, the home page on my IE6 goes to a search engine that I do not want. I have tried changing the home page and it works until I reboot. I have also gone into regedit and changed the home page spec, but it still changes at reboot. How can I get rid of this thing?

Hello.Hope someone can help. As I search on Google, a automatic unwanted new page pops up with an MSN Search on it. How can you turn this off or stop it from happening? If it wasn't MSN one would say its a malware of some kind. Any one know how to deal with it?Thanks in advance.

A:Unwanted MSN Search page

MSN still has redirects though, and that makes what it is doing malicious (because you are not in control of how your system is working).

Check your hosts file and see if there are any entries there that shouldn't be. That's the easiest way to redirect a search. Did you download any MSN toolbars or anything?

When I start the computer, it shows the desktop for a second, then a file opens. I just have to click the red "X" in the top right corner and it goes back to the desktop, but how do I get rid of the file that opens. It is called "common" and there's nothing in it.

A:Unwanted page at boot up.

What program is "common" opening in? Or is it a file folder?Click the Help menu to see what program -- if it just says About Windows, then it is a folder that is opening in My Computer. If so, check the address bar to see the full path to this folder. If the address bar is not displayed, click View | Toolbars and check it. If your system is not set to display the full path, you can click the down arrow at the right end of the address bar, and that will let you see just where this "Common" folder is located. paste that path into your next reply.Or, you can click Tools | Folder Options..., View tab, and check one of the Display the full path in the ??? bar options.

Whether it's a folder, or a file opening in a program, we need to find out where it's starting from. Copy and paste the following code into Notepad, then save it on your desktop as Runkey.bat Be sure you set the Save As Type: setting to All Files. Then double click the file. A notepad window will open up. Paste the contents into your next reply.

Hey,
ive got this problem with my internet explorer browser.
Each time i open it, my home page isnt the one that ive set, its changed to something about spyware.
I know that i have gotten spyware on my computer that is causing this, however none of my scans are showing anything.
Is there a way to delete it from the regisrty?
Any help would be great
Cheers

A:Unwanted Home Page

Hi, please go through the 'Having problems with spyware/viruses' in my sig. This will help you get rid of the hijack, and remove all the spyware, and hopefully even speed up you computer.

Every time I switch on my pc and go online I get a web page come up that has replaced my home page of choice. A search engine I've never heard of and don't want.I go into settings/general and delete it and put in my own web page of choice only to have it reappear next time I go online. Is there any way I can get rid of this for good and keep my home page of choice permenantly.

Hi there.I have a machine that runs Vista. A few days ago I had become the recipient of an unwanted toolbar or web page that calls itself Mywebsearch. I say toolbar or web page because I&#8217;m not absolutely sure which of the two it is. Maybe it&#8217;s both. My normal home page is Google, and I want it to stay that way too. When I go onto the Net, my Google home page is there. But when I visit anything and return to my home page by clicking on the home icon, that home page changes toMywebsearch. It doesn&#8217;t make any difference using the function &#8220;Make Google my home page&#8221;, because Mywebsearch overrides it.

I have gone looking on the Net for ways to remove this Mywebsearch trash, and so far they all seem to involve going to the Control Panel and removing programs called &#8220;My Web Search&#8221; and &#8220;My Search Assistant.&#8221; I cannot find these programs on the list. How the hell do I get rid of this creepy trash?

I previously had a program listed in Add/Remove Programs called Mysearchbar, but I couldn't uninstall it, and a search of My Computer didn't locate it. However, the last set of scans seems to have removed it.

Also--possibly related--I am unable to enable Internet Connection Firewall on my dialup connection. I get a message 'Cannot enable shared access. Error 1060: the specified service does not exist as an installed service.' I don't know how to deal with this.

I am currently reviewing your log. Please note that this is under the supervision of an expert analyst. I will be back with a fix for your problem as soon as possible.

Please be patient with me during this time.

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You are infected with a variant of the CoolWebSearch.Download CWShredder from the below link and unzip it into a directory. Start CWShredder and click on the FIx button to have it remove all CWS infections it finds.Download CWShredder from:http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zipAfter you download the program, unzip it into a directory. Make sure all browser windows are closed and double click on the cwshredder.exe to start the program. When the program is loaded click on the "Check for Update" button, and if it finds an new version it will download it. You should then double click on cwshredder.exe again and click on the "FIX" button (not the "Scan only" button) and let it scan your computer.To get the best results it is recommended that you run it in safe mode. Reboot windows and press F8 at boot/windows startup, usually right after the beep. Then select safe mode.A tutorial that goes over this process step by step can be found here:How to remove CoolWebSearch with CoolWeb ShredderOnce that is completed you should follow these steps in order to clean your computer of Malware which can include Viruses, Trojans, Worms, Spyware, Hijackers and DialersStep 1:Download Spybot and Adaware from the following locations and install them. You should run both programs and clean up what it finds. This is to gaurantee that you find the most malware you can installed on your computer.Before running the scans on both programs, it is mandatory that you updat... Read more

My operating system is Windows 98. I have an annoying website that comes up as my homepage when I connect onto the internet. It doesn't always come up immediately either. What I see first is a message box saying that a plugin is in progress and then the unwanted webpage pops up. How can I once and for all get rid of this website file???

Thanks for any help.
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A:Unwanted home page

Your Homepage has been Hijacked. Go to the security site on this Forum .
Download and run Hijack this and post your log in the Hijack this site and one of the Security Experts will help you.

there is nothing showing in the log butFirstDownload & Run CWshredder from http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.htmland make sure you follow the advice about the security updates listed at the bottom of the page, in

I have always used “Blank” as my home page setting However last week something got into my computer and changed my homepage to “searchpage.html”.

When I open up Widows Explorer instead of a blank screen I get “Searchpage”. If I type in say www.vote.com another search page is displayed with the following message:

“You try to go to the vote.comFor visit this site follow this link: HTTP://vote.comor type in full url (including HTTP://) in the adress bar.”

I have tried to delete “C:\searchpage.html” from my C: drive but it keeps coming back.I have also tried to use another web site for my home page but it always goes back to “about:blank”. I also have a “about” icon on my desktop that I can’t delete.

A week ago I fitted an extra internal hard drive to handle a video program and subsequent large files. I followed instrutions from one of you fellows out there who know what they are doing. Everything is fine with the drive and program. The problem is I get a page when the desk top has finished loading that just shows the new drive. How do I get into the XP SP2 program to remove it. Thanks, great site!

I recently downloaded Babylon Translator but decided to opt out. I did a search of Cdrive and deleted all that was found. The trouble is that when I opened Mozilla Firefox insteadof coming up with my default Home Page (which is my ISP's HP), I got a Babylon Search Engine which has been "enhanced by Google". To my mind it is a Google alias. In German to boot.I went to Control Panel>Internet Options and my default HP is as it should be,my ISP.I have looked all over the Control Panel,Program Files and elsewhere to no avail.How can I get rid of this Babylon engine whose address is search.babylon.com/home.A look in Firefox also was no good.Please help,Regards, brianml.

Hi guys, I've been having some problems recently with my browsers..Certain websites, will not load. I've tried multiple browsers, IE, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator, etc.The very first time I tried to open these webpages, they would be redirected to some other sites like soundsofopera.comor videocop.com, etc. I went in to Mozilla Firefox and Adblock 'd those redirection sites. I tried opening the page again,and it would give me a blank page, with the status "Done" at the left bottom corner of the browser.Removed text not written by member. Pasting in additional information posted by member posted elsewhere. ~ OBTake a look at Untitled.JPEG. Thanks.In fact, the redirection site changes daily.. it was soundsofopera.com in August 25, and now it's ultrabestportal.com End of paste. ~ OBHere is my log:Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4Scan saved at 10:01:25 PM, on 26/08/2010Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702)Boot mode: NormalRunning processes:C:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32csrss.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32services.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32lsass.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exeC:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exeC:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedccSetMgr.exeC:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedccEvtMgr.exeC:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedSPBB... Read more

A:Unwanted redirections, blank page..

Hi Changg,Welcome to Bleeping Computer!My name is mpascal, and I will be helping you fix your problem.Before we begin, I would like give a few guidelines so that we can fix your problem as quickly and efficiently as possible:Be sure to follow all my instructions carefully! If there is anything you don't understand, don't hesitate to ask.Please do not do anything or perform other steps unless I have asked you to do so.Please make sure you post all logs I ask you to, and make sure that the entire log gets posted.Don't attach any logs unless asked. Posting them in the forums will make them easier to analyze.If you are unsure of how to reply, or need help with anything regarding the website, please look here.We apologize for the delay in responding to your request for help. Here at Bleeping Computer we get overwhelmed at times, and we are trying our best to keep up. Please note that your topic was not intentionally overlooked. Our mission is to help everyone in need, but sometimes it takes just a little longer to get to every request for help. No one is ignored here.If you have since resolved the original problem you were having, we would appreciate you letting us know. If not please perform the following steps below so we can have a look at the current condition of your machine. If you have not done so, include a clear description of the problems you're having, along with any steps you may have performed so far.Upon completing the steps below I will revi... Read more

My home page has been changed to an unwanted search engine which has the address, use blank. At the same time I get pop-ups regarding spy-ware. Also since this happened I cannot activate my desktop icons without being online If I do the computer just freezes and I have to reboot. I have tried many things including re-setting web settings and I have used spy-bot search and destroy and ad-aware but I just can't remove them. I understand that the only other method would be to re-install windows or re-set the registry. Any advice.

Thanks

A:[resolved]unwanted home page

Hi paul.m, and welcome to TSG

I'm not a security expert but there are some who donate their expertise on this site. However they will want to see a copy of a "HijackThis" (HJT) log to help you properly.

If the hijack is really bad (i.e. fast) try and download startpage guard as a temporary measure to keep you on the one page and then download and run SpywareBlaster (this is a preventative to help stop further infections) and CWShredder and also check for updates on Ad-Aware and spybot to see whether you have the very latest versions.

Also, get HijackThis (HJT) and if there still problems, post a HJT log here and wait for one of the security experts to get to you.

My OS is Windows XP. My browser is Mozilla Firefox. I went into Firefox options and set my home page to I Google. Now you would think that the home page should stay the one you want. but mine does not. When i log out of Firefox and then log back in a home page called Fastp2psearch.com becomes my home page. I've tried several ways to get rid of it for good to no avail. Does anyone know how to remove this for good?

A:Unwanted home page keeps coming back

Hi satisfier. Welcome to TSF!

Any chance you use Limewire, Napster, or other P2P software? Sounds like you have a browser hijacker.

Hi there. I have a machine that runs Vista. A few days ago I had become the recipient of an unwanted toolbar or web page that calls itself Mywebsearch. I say toolbar or web page because I’m not absolutely sure which of the two it is. Maybe it’s both. My normal home page is Google, and I want it to stay that way too. When I go onto the Net, my Google home page is there. But when I visit anything and return to my home page by clicking on the home icon, that home page changes to Mywebsearch. It doesn’t make any difference using the function “Make Google my home page”, because Mywebsearch overrides it.

I have gone looking on the Net for ways to remove this Mywebsearch trash, and so far they all seem to involve going to the Control Panel and removing programs called “My Web Search” and “My Search Assistant.” I cannot find these programs on the list. How the hell do I get rid of this creepy trash? (I'd really like to confront some of the creeps who create trash like this.)

I put a photo of myself in the admin account page of the user accounts. I want to remove it, but I cannot?I tried logging into my MS account but still no luck.The picture is "not" in the program data\Microsoft\default account picts?

So where is it? I really want it gone.

I hate so much when microsoft does stuff like this. I should be able to right click and delete it or at least select it and delete it.

any ideas?ThanksFrank

A:Admin account page has unwanted photo?

If you are in "Your Account", you can browse for a new picture. Did you try that.

I am using IE7 on Windows XP. IE will open, slower than I remember but it opens. The problem I am having is when I go to search (usually Yahoo, but happens on Google too). I will put in the search topic I am looking for, when the results come up and I click on the one I want (or any for that matter) I get redirected to some other website. The one I am usually getting starts out as http://go.yahoo...... then ends up at http://yellowpages.superpages.com....but have ended up at other sites than what I was looking for.I have run McAffe and Advanced System Care, but nothing is found. Can anyone please help me? It is really frustrating!

A:Using IE7 and any search engine will redirect to unwanted page.

Hi and welcome. I have moved your topic here as you appear to be infected. Let's get a scan and report done.Please download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (v1.32) and save it to your desktop.alternate download link 1alternate download link 2If you have a previous version of MBAM, remove it via Add/Remove Programs and download a fresh copy.Make sure you are connected to the Internet.Double-click on mbam-setup.exe to install the application.When the installation begins, follow the prompts and do not make any changes to default settings.When installation has finished, make sure you leave both of these checked:Update Malwarebytes' Anti-MalwareLaunch Malwarebytes' Anti-MalwareThen click Finish.MBAM will automatically start and you will be asked to update the program before performing a scan.If an update is found, the program will automatically update itself.Press the OK button to close that box and continue.If you encounter any problems while downloading the updates, manually download them from here and just double-click on mbam-rules.exe to install. Alternatively, you can update through MBAM's interface from a clean computer, copy the definitions (rules.ref) located in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from that system to a usb stick or CD and then copy it to the infected machine.On the Scanner tab:Make sure the "Perform Quick Scan" option is selected.Then click on the Scan button.If asked to select the drives to scan, leave a... Read more

Hey, I went on this website a couple of days ago and it askd me if i wanted it as my homepage, I clicked no and thought everything was all gd. But now I've realised that it HAS became my homepage and I tried to reset google as my homepage but it refuses to go away. I've scanned with Norton and Spybot but have both been useless. HELP PLEASE :(

A:Unwanted home page on Internet Explorer!!!!

Hello and Welcome to TSF.

We want all our members to perform the steps outlined in the link I'll give you below, before posting for assistance. There's a sticky at the top of this forum, and a
Quote:

HI, I have recently had an unwanted web page at start-up in Google Chrome (ISTART.WEBSEARCHES.COM). Not sure how it accessed my pc. The only addition to my software was to download VLC Media player, recently.

Someone at my work has done something to his defaults in Word. Whenever he creates a document, page numbers appear automatically in the header. You can go in and manually delete them of course, but how do you fix the default settings?

He uses a Mac, btw, if that makes a difference.

thanks,Vetten

A:Unwanted page numbers in all Word documents

It sounds like you overwrote your normal.dot (default Word template). Do a search on your hard drive for normal.dot, delete it and see if this clears it up.

Hello all-I have run the required scans, and they are attached. I have an unwanted toolbar and startup web page that I can't seem to get rid of. Both IE and FF initialize to this link http://vshare.toolbarhome.com/?hp=df , and I don't want it!!

Also, my pages are loading more slowly than in the past, as if the system "hangs up" for a few seconds before loading the new page.

I first came across your site in Apr and began following instructions on "preparation". Got quite frustrated running into programs I could not readily download or utilize for some reason or other but mostly as I am running on a dial-up connection (and continually got "cut-off" here 'n there).I started ALL OVER AGN this past week doing everything I could. Coupled with what I had learned from my sojourn in Apr I THINK the original "problem" has now been handled - I CAN now "maintain my own background pic AND I am not having to reset my Home Page every time I re-boot" HOWEVER, I would like to KNOW that the problem has truly been handled and that there are no lingering "bits,bytes,pieces" that may crop up somewhere and start this all over again OR if there is anything ELSE (which you might see) that I should take care of before it does get out-of-hand ???I also have some questions on how I might better "make this computer my own" as it was a hand me down gift from a friend and I don't use "all the bells and whistles" but don't think they belong in this forum and would appreciate any redirection/suggestions.Thx a million - jts (here's the reports) :Deckard's System Scanner v20071014.68Run by Larry Schleusner on 2008-07-08 15:06:39Computer is in Normal Mode.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- System Restore --------------------------------------------------------... Read more

A:Sorry - Name Unk - Continually Directed To Unwanted Home Page

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